Editing Mohenjo-daro (section)

=== Flooding and rebuilding ===
The city also had large platforms perhaps intended as defense against flooding.<ref name=McIntosh389>McIntosh (2008), p. 389. "The enormous amount of labor involved in the creation of Mohenjo-daro's flood defense platforms (calculated at around 4 million man-days) indicates the existence of an authority able to plan the construction and to mobilize and feed the requisite labor force."</ref> According to a theory first advanced by Wheeler, the city could have been flooded and silted over, perhaps six times, and later rebuilt in the same location.<ref name=Dales>[[George F. Dales]], "[https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/civilization-and-floods-in-the-indus-valley/ Civilization and Floods in the Indus Valley]", ''Expedition Magazine'', July 1965.</ref> For some archaeologists, it was believed that a final flood that helped engulf the city in a sea of mud brought about the abandonment of the site.<ref name="auto">{{cite journal |last1=Possehl |first1=Gregory |title=The Mohenjo-daro Floods: A Reply |journal=American Anthropologist |date=February 1967 |volume=69 |issue=1 |pages=32–40 |jstor=670484 |doi=10.1525/aa.1967.69.1.02a00040 |doi-access=free }}</ref> [[Gregory Possehl]] was the first to theorize that the floods were caused by overuse and expansion upon the land, and that the mud flood was not the reason the site was abandoned.<ref name="auto" /> Instead of a mud flood wiping part of the city out in one fell swoop, Possehl coined the possibility of constant mini-floods throughout the year, paired with the land being worn out by crops, pastures, and resources for bricks and pottery spelled the downfall of the site.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Possehl |first1=Gregory |title=The Mohenjo-daro Floods: A Reply |journal=American Anthropologist |date=February 1967 |volume=69 |issue=1 |page=38 |jstor=670484 |doi=10.1525/aa.1967.69.1.02a00040 |doi-access=free }}</ref>